Art + Public Scholarship

My research, writing, and multimedia arts practice often intersect with public humanities/arts programming. Because all of these areas of my creative/intellectual life are grounded in research-creation, social justice, and interdisciplinary collaboration, I often share work across media and with diverse audiences. Here you’ll find a selection of those projects and events:

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center with Lorna Goodison: Craft as Dynamic Exchange (a lecture, poetry reading, discussion, and Q&A)

Season 5 of Novel Dialogue opens with an impassioned refresher course in literary theory brought to you by Ocean Vuong, poet and author of the bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous(2019). Ocean talks with critic Amy E. Elkins and host Emily Hyde about browsing bookstore shelves and building his personal reading list of “life-giving weirdos.” They discuss genre and gender, antiquing and thrifting, fish sauce and photography, all the while integrating the insights of queer theory and the full range of literary history. 

Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN: Moderating a conversation for the McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibit with Nicole Sara Simpkins and Amy Sands.

Leavings (After Boubat), a garmented un-archive artist’s book as part of my piece in Post45 Contemporaries, co-authored with Deidre Lynch. For more on this project, see this post.

My film-essay, “The Weaver’s Handshake,” published in MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture.

Art Quilt: “Covid Quilting: Crafting Amid Chaos” exhibit at Bolivar Art Gallery at the University of Kentucky. 

Lecture + Workshop for Image Works: Research and Practice in Visual Culture at Cardiff University.

Interviews with women writers on visual culture and politics for the Los Angeles Review of Books.